102 Of the Vajjage of the Ifraelites 



other would be too fmall, for drowning or covering therein, 

 (Ex. IS. x8.) the Chariots and Horfemen, and all the Host of 

 Tharaoh. An y^rmjf very probably much fuperior in Strength 

 to the Ifraelites ; whom they knew to have gone out ofEg/pt, 

 harnejfed, and with a high Hand', and who therefore were 

 not to be conquered and brought back by an inferior Number. 

 Their Ell- Let us now fee what better Account and lefs open to 



campraencs 



betweenHf- Objcftion, has been given of this remarkable Tranfadion^ in 



!!^S'/in- the Defcription of the Eafl. Now in this Book, and in the 



uMdi' The Map annexed to it, Migdol d.nd Baalzephon, (which I placed 



/Sine! where we now find the Mountains Gewotihee and ^t-tackah,) 



are here fixed, where Heroofolk and Arfinoe were afterwards 



built. Tihahiroth^ (or Ti Hahhiroth i. e. the Mouth o^Htroth) 



which I confidered, Tr/^i;. p.346. not as a Place of Abode, but 



as the Mouth or the advanced Part of this Valley towards the 



Sea, (where Clyfma might afterwards be built,) is here fitua- 



ted at Cleopatris ' ; a Place indeed, which I am not acquainted 



with; however it is fixed, near the middle Way, betwixt i7(?- 



roopolis and Arfinoe \ and a League to the Eaftward of them 



both. Arfinoe is SneZy and Heroopolis the Adjeroute of the 



prefent Times; wherein we are both of us agreed. 



Now this Account will by no means agree, nay rather it 

 feems entirely to contradict the Circumftances, which relate 

 to the Hiftory of this Tranfadion, as it is related in Scripture : 

 which fliould always be our Guide or Dire6lor. For here we 

 are acquainted, that they were to turn ' and^to encamp before 

 Tihahiroth, between Migdol and the Sea, over againfl Baal- 

 zephon. (Ex. 14. 1 ) And again, (v. 9.) the Egyptians are faid 

 to have overtook them, encamping by the Sea, befides Tihahi- 

 roth, before Baalzephon. And in Numb. 33.7. they removed 

 from Etham and turned again {y^''\) to Tihahiroth, which is 

 before Baalzephon, and they pitched before Migdol. All which 



1 In the Chryfanthine Map, (Afwoo »> KMo-jntrfn) Arfinoe or Cleopatr'ts are the fame, and' not 

 diftind Cities, as they are made in the Defcr'iption of the Eafi. 



2 The radical Word 3W which is here rendred turn, is turn again, in the correfpon- 

 dent Text, Numb. 11.7. where the Word again appears to be luperfluous : inafmuch as 

 Fi Hahhiroth was a Station, towards which they were advancing, and where we do not 

 learn, that they had been before. \i Shoubh then is to be taken in this Senfe j it will au- 

 thorize what I had taken Notice of, Trav. p. 34^. viz.. that the Ifraelites, at their firft fet- 

 ting out, from GofJjert, did not take the Southern, but the Northern and the dired Road, 

 that leads to the RedSea, (Trav. p. 343.} and that they turned into the former, fome Time 

 afterwards. 



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